Wills: Samuel Levengood, 1850: Tulpenhocken Twp, Berks County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Barbara Mihalcik. mihalcik@hotmail.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ____________________________________________________________ In the name of God, Amen, I Samuel Levengood of Tulpenhocken Township Berks County and state of Pennsylvania farmer, being weak in body and of sound mind, memory and understanding, but considering the uncertainty of this transitory life do make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following, to wit - First, it is my will, and I do order, that my Just debts and funeral expenses be duly paid and satisfied as soon as conveniently can be after my desease. Item, I give and bequeath unto my Dear wife Margarett, such of my household furniture and Kitchen Utensils as she may choose to Keep for her own use. Item, I do order and direct, that my Executors hereinafter named, or the survivor of them, shall as soon as conveniently may be after my desease, appoint six disinterested freeholders to meet on a certain time and day on the premises, and value and appraise my plantation, or messuage tenement and tract of land situate in the township as aforesaid, adjoining lands of Philip Moyer, Peter Lebo, Henry Fisher and others, containing one hundred and twenty six acres, be the same more or less, the said appraisers before they enter upon their duties, shall be first sworn and affirmed that they will value and appraise the same with impartiallity and fidelity and after the same is so valued and appraised, my son Samuel shall have the first chance to take and accept the same at the valuation thereof, and in case my son Samuel should refuse to take the same at the valuation thereof, then my son Peter shall have the same chance, and should he refuse to take the same at the valuation therof, then my hereinafter named Executors shall sell and dispose of the same to such person or persons and for such price or prices as may be reasonable gotten for the same, and for such purposes I do hereby authorize and empower my said Exeuctors or the survivor of them to sign, seal, execute and acknowledge all such deed or deeds of conveyance may be requisite an necessary for the Granting and assurng the same to the purchase or purchasers thereof in fee simple and further in case my son Samuel will take the same at the valuation thereof and should within ten years thereafter wish to dispose of the same, he shall then in the first offer the same to my son Peter, at the same rate as he received it, and should my son Peter refuse to take the same at that rate then and in that case, he is at liberty to sell and convey the same to whom he may choose and I do order and direct that the one third of the valuation or purchase money shall be and remain a charge on the premises during the natural life of my Dear wife Margarett and the Interest thereof to be anually paid to her by the owner thereof, and I further order and direct that the monies arising out of said premises shall be equally divided among my nine children share and share alike - And as touching all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real & personal, of what kind or nature so ever the same may be in the County of Berks aforesaid, or elsewhere, my hereinafter named Executors or the survivor of them, shall sell and dispose of the same at Public Sale, and the monies arising therefrom shall be equally divided among my nine children, but in all cases my Family Book shall be taken in Account before a distribution is made. And lastly I nominate, constitute and appoint my two sons Samuel and Peter to be the Executors of this my will, hereby revoking all other wills, legacies and bequests, by me heretofore made, and declaring this, and no other, to be my last will and testament - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seel the fourth day of September One thousand eight hundred and fify - Signed Sealed & delivered Samuel Levengood by the said testator as his last will and testament in the presence of us Jacob Levengood Adam Schoener Berks County on the 12th day of November AD 1850 appeared Jacob Livengood and Adam Schoener witnesses to the foregoing instrument of writing and being duly sworn according to Law did depose and say that they were present and did see and hear the Testator Samuel Livengood sign seal publish pronounce and declare this instrument of writing as and for his last will and Testament and that at the time of the doing there of he the said Testator was of Sound mind memory and understanding to the best of their Knowledge Observation and belief. John G. Cunnius Deputy Regr ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com